In case you need a reminder, here's what to know about the privacy-related precedent...
ruling on Roe v. Wade Friday, suggesting the Court should also reconsider past rulings establishing the constitutional right to contraception, same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage., Thomas wrote that"we have a duty to correct the error' established in those precedents," pointing to Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell v. Hodges.
While no other justices signed onto Thomas' opinion, it nonetheless served as an alarm bell for Democrats and advocates of LGBTQ+ rights. In case you're not familiar or need a reminder, here's what to know about those privacy-related precedent cases that Thomas mentioned in his opinion.This case came about after C. Lee Buxton, a gynecologist at the Yale School of Medicine, opened a birth control clinic in New Haven with Estelle Griswold, then-head of Planned Parenthood in Connecticut.
In 1998, Houston police entered John Lawrence's apartment while checking on a reported weapons disturbance in a private residence. They saw Lawrence and another adult man, Tyron Garner, engaging in a private, consensual sexual act. The pair were then arrested and convicted of deviate sexual intercourse in violation of a Texas statuteIn a
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